Here are the 23 best craft beer tap handles in America

A great tap handle can grab your attention, then compel you to order... as in, "that one with the dragon and the girl on it, yeah, that one". And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, as most of the best tap handles are attached to lines pouring some of our dragon/girl-obsessed Nation's best craft beers. Here's a list of 23 to keep your eyes and mouths open for. Let us know if we missed any.

Seattle's Odin Brewing's taps are hand-carved in Vancouver at $1000 bucks a pop; they're in the shape of a dragon because a) that's Odin's mascot, and b) anything that burps fire obviously needs lots and lots of beer.

Jeff McCabe

Lucette is a small Wisconsin brewery that's noted for a) making a very popular pale ale called Farmer's Daughter, b) these taps depicting a farmer's daughter that is no doubt very popular, and c) getting sued by a Minnesota brewer who was likely just pissed they didn't think of the skanky impressively crafted taps first.

After starting out making microbrews from a Boulder garage, BRU Handbuilt Ales recently expanded its operation in a big way, including stepping up to custom hap handles that may or may not have also come from a Boulder garage.

Holding up the craft brew scene's end of the Keep Austin Weird movement, Jester King is known for its crazy-good array of beers and their just plain crazy handles that'll make you really glad beer's not a hallucinogen.

Redhook

Redhook's Game Changer Ale is a new session job from the official craft brew of the University of Washington. There's a remote chance that bar patrons don't start trying to use it to change channels come the late games.

Chapple Design

One of the oldest breweries in LA (1997!!), Angel City was recently bought by a couple of former Magic Hat folks who've spent 18 months renovating everything about the company, including introducing these sweet 1930s-style angels.

Dark Horse Brewery

What's behind Dark Horse Brewery's choice to use a double-barreled shotgun as the tap of choice for each of its beers? A "no-bulls**t approach to brewing big, outstanding beers and selling nonsensical imagery and haberdashery", combined with the brewer's "visions of smacking Oompa Loompas with snow shovels". We don't get it either, but still -- nice taps.

Trophy Brewing

Trophy Brewing is a nanobrewery in Raleigh that pours saisons, IPAs, and stouts from a random assortment of old, mostly-in-good-condition trophies that hold such deep meaning for its regulars that the actual names of the beers are less important than the taps themselves. Example: It's not uncommon to hear someone order a one-armed cheerleader.

Nola Brewing

Saranac Brewing

For 125yrs, Saranac has been making beer -- even surviving Prohibition -- and they've been producing their eponymous craft brew since 1984, complete with the iconic vintage canoe tap handle. Unlike while canoeing, you should definitely tip while drinking it.